Business Administration Major & Minor Requirements

The Business Administration Major

In addition to the requirements for the B.S.B.A. degree outlined below, all business administration majors must complete a concentration. Except as otherwise noted on the concentration pages, a concentration area requires four courses minimum chosen from a single Robins School of Business department. A maximum of seven courses can be taken in any area of concentration.

Business administration majors must choose a concentration from the following areas: accounting, business analytics, economics, finance, international business, marketing, or management. A concentration in accounting or business analytics is always a secondary concentration to a primary concentration.

Candidates for a B.S.B.A. must:

• Satisfy the general degree requirements for graduation

• Complete the following foundational business courses:

  • ACCT201 Fundamentals of Financial Accounting

  • ACCT205 Fundamentals of Managerial Accounting*

  • BUAD202 Statistics for Business and Economics

  • BUAD205 Business Communication

  • ECON101 Principles of Microeconomics

  • ECON102 Principles of Macroeconomics

  • MAT 211 Calculus I

• Complete the following core courses except as noted:

  • BUAD393 Business Law^

  • BUAD394 Business Ethics^

  • BUAD497 Strategic Management**

  • FIN360 Principles of Financial Management

  • MGMT225 IT and Data Analytics

  • MGMT330 Organizational Behavior

  • MGMT340 Operations Management

  • MKT320 Principles of Marketing

*Accounting concentrators take ACCT305: Cost and Managerial Accounting in lieu of ACCT205. ACCT 305 satisfies the RSB core course requirement for ACCT 205, and it also counts as one of the four courses needed to fulfill the accounting concentration. 

**The International Business concentration requires IBUS411 in lieu of BUAD497.

^BUAD393 and BUAD394 are required for students entering the University fall 2018 and later.

Maintain at least a 2.00 overall grade point average in school of business coursework

Earn 17 units outside the Robins School of Business. Included in these 17 units are the Business Administration major requirements: ECON101, ECON102, and BUAD202.

Participate in a full semester University of Richmond approved study abroad program or complete a course with an international business or international business economics focus. This international focus course also may satisfy a concentration or major requirement.

All students declaring a Robins School of Business major or Business Administration minor must first pass an Excel competency exam. Entrepreneurship minors are not required to take the Excel competency exam. Students will have three attempts to demonstrate competency with a grade of 80% or higher. This is not for a grade or academic credit.